Case of the Spanish Cross". In 1961, she played Miss Sarah McKay in "The Case of the Barefaced Witness", and in 1962, she played Amelia Corning in "The Case of the Mystified Miner". In the 1960 The Rifleman episode "The Prodigal", she played Christine, the mother of outlaw Billy St. John. In 1970 Bonanza (S12E9) "Love Child", she played Martha Randolph. In Little House on the Prairie (S1E6) "If I Should Wake Before I Die", she played Amy Hearn. Hutchinson continued to work steadily through the 1970s in film, radio, and television, establishing a solid career in supporting roles. She appeared in The Real McCoys in 1961 in the episode "September Song", on Rawhide in 1962 in the episode "Grandma's Money", The Twilight Zone in the episode "I Sing the Body Electric", and Gunsmoke as “Mrs Crale” in the 1959 episode “Johnny Red”, and as “Reverend Mother Sister Ellen” in the 1967 episode “Ladies From St. Louis”. In 1971, Hutchinson appeared in The Waltons television movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, in which she played Mamie Baldwin, one half of a sister duo who made moonshine whiskey. Personal life On August 12, 1924, Hutchinson married Robert W. Bell, a stage director, in Washington, D.C. In 1926, she met the actress Eva Le Gallienne, and became a member of Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre company. By 1927, the two women were involved in an affair and Hutchinson and Bell, who separated in 1928, were divorced in 1930. The press quickly dubbed her Le Gallienne's "shadow", a term which at the time meant lesbian. Both actresses survived the scandal and carried on with their respective careers. Hutchinson married three times. Hutchinson married James F. Townsend in 1935; they later divorced. Her final marriage was to actor Staats Cotsworth in 1972; he died in 1979. Death She died, aged 94, on June 4, 1998, at the Florence Nightingale Nursing Home in Manhattan. Her ashes were scattered near her niece's home at Springfield, Oregon. Select filmography The Little Princess (1917) (uncredited) Happiness Ahead (1934) as Joan Bradford The Right to Live (1935) as Stella Trent Oil for the Lamps of China (1935) as Hester The Melody Lingers On (1935) as Ann Prescott The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) as Marie Pasteur I Married a Doctor (1936) as Carol Kennicott Mountain Justice (1937) as Ruth Harkins The Women Men Marry (1937) as Jane Carson The